Numerama has once again risen, this year 2022, to the ranking of the 10 most reliable French sites, which have generated the most engagement on social networks, according to Newsguard. A distinction that honors the editorial staff, for whom the quality of information, free and accessible, must always be a priority.
It is with great pleasure and honor that the editorial staff of Numerama discovered that our information site appeared in the list of the 10 most reliable sites in France this year, among those which generated the most engagement on social networks. , according to the report of Newsguard site, published end of December 2022.
We are all the more proud that Numerama is one of the four media in this top 10 to register for the second consecutive year in the ranking. In 2021, in fact, numerama.com was already cited among the ten most reliable sites.
Newsguard’s scoring process is always the same: the organization has ” evaluated all news and information sites whose content represents 95% of online engagement », i.e. 3,800 sites, then rated them according to its 9 criteria of credibility and transparency. Among them are: Regularly corrects or clarifies errors », « Doesn’t regularly post erroneous content ” or ” Clearly indicates advertising “.
Newguard reports that 7% of the sites surveyed received a score of 100%. They were then ranked in order of online influence, i.e. the engagement produced by the social media posts.
Numerama.com is the only 100% online media that appears in the list of the ten selected sites. There are media such as 20 Minutes, Rfi.fr, Liberation.fr or the Radio France site. The Actu.fr news platform takes first place in the rankingwhich aggregates the content of a hundred local newspaper sites.
Numerama: serious and precise information in free access
This report honors us, because it embodies what we strive to perpetuate at the editorial staff of Numerama: to provide quality information, in free access, to millions of readers each month.
This year 2022 has been a year of stabilization for our media, after two years of global pandemic which have put a strain on our work processes and our ability to adapt. We came out of it with a solidified team of twelve talented people in the editorial department and in the video department, who bring life to six sections: tech, science, pop culture, society, cyberwar and vroom.
Our objective is always the same: to be precise like a specialized site, but to be able to be understood by the general public. We believe that information should be clear and accessible, while standing out from many other sites with a strong tone and always full independence.
In 2022, we continued to publish exclusive surveys, in particular continuing our work on the #balancetonyoutubeur movement which continues to grow in France. We continued the necessary educational work by sharing the best advice for adopting good digital hygiene reflexes online, covered cybersecurity issues related to the war in Ukraine — and revealed the use of commercial drones by the Russian army. .
We’ve also carefully followed the most significant events of the year, from James Webb’s prowess in space to the upheavals in the digital world – there are now around 100 articles on the takeover controversy of Twitter by Elon Musk and what it could change the way we perceive social networks. We’ve also tested over 50 video games this year as well as a similar number of board games, making Numerama one of the most comprehensive sites for entertainment advice, both online and offline.
This year, we released a new version of our information site, clear and modern, with a refreshed graphic charter (and even a nice dark mode). By accumulating nearly 100 million page views this year, we have succeeded in our challenge to continue to impose our investigations, reports, analysis and current affairs articles in the French media landscape, despite the random changes of weighting algorithms platforms like Google, Twitter or Facebook.
Audio, video, social networks: Numerama is not just a website
This year, Numerama released its very first documentary in 52 minutes, produced entirely in-house, and which will be available in several other reports on the different futures that are already being created in France.
We have also embarked on the adventure (already so widespread in many media which do it very well) of the podcast, with the Sixth Extinction, our audio series also produced by the teams of Numerama and the Humanoid group, in partnership with Marie Treibert.
Speaking of audio; you will not have missed that you can, for 18 months, listen to our articles thanks to a player which is displayed automatically at the beginning of each text. This initiative, which you really liked, has since spread to many news sites.
Thanks to the hiring of our videographer Nino Barbey (and excellent image maker of quality headlines for our articles), we launched with panache on TikTokwhere we already accumulate hundreds of thousands of views per week, and more than 60,000 subscribers and subscribers.
The Newsguard 2022 ranking
Here is the list of ten news sites selected by Newsguard according to their degree of influence on social networking platforms.
- news.fr
- 20Minutes.fr
- Rfi.fr
- Liberation.fr
- RadioFrance.fr
- Lexpress.fr
- LaNouvelleRepublique.fr
- Capital.com
- SciencesEtAvenir.fr
- Numerama.com
